Why do songs become unavailable on Apple Music?

Possible easy fix to anyone reading! Try connecting your phone to WiFi. I was having this issue. I connected my iPhone to my home WiFi, and the songs I wanted downloaded perfectly fine. Hope this works for many that have this problem! :) hopefully an update will come soon

It’s very simple. Apple is a quasi trillion dollar company. Not content being so rich, they want to get richer still. So they are preventing users from playing on their iPhone any music which was not actually bought on the iTunes Store .

Even if you have a CD at home and have copied it onto your iTunes, it will not play on your iPhone.

There is only one way around this; Change the titles of the songs, albums on your iTunes so that I tunes doesn’t recognise it any longer. That worked for me.

Change every song title? You must be joking. I have over 8000 imported from CDs! I did it the easy way. Copied my music library to my Android phone. (I use an iPhone XR for personal use, and an Android phone for business) I just left it copying overnight to a micro SD card and by the morning everything played fine when I put the card into my Galaxy. Apple are shooting themselves in the foot with their attitude. When I change my personal phone, it certainly won’t be an Apple device!

The really insane part is that this is happening to me with songs that I burned from a physical cd that I bought. The tracks weren't even burned using Itunes, they were burned with Google Play. Itunes arbitrarily applied DRM bullshit to music files that I legally own. That is completely unacceptable.

Yeah tried logging out and logging back in and it's still happening. Guess I'm officially done with Apple. They're getting rid of Itunes anyway and moving to "Music." I was there when Itunes first started, and I foresaw all of the issues with this DRM horseshit, and finally relented because Itunes pushed out all the competition. Now I've got an ongodly amount of music stuck in Itunes, and all my fears are coming to fruition.

"iT jUsT wOrKs"

I make my own songs they work on my iPhone and iPad Air but not on my new iPad Air 3 actually gonna take apple to court over this because no copyright is broken my own stuff and they trying to say it’s not available when it is so hopefully get sorted if I was told this I’d no upgraded.

DyreLogan wrote:

I’m having this issue as well. In fact, I’m getting rather tired of seeing this on practically every single album I add. This is Vince Gill’s brand new album which I am available to purchase in my region but for some reason some of the songs are not available in my region? What is this? I’m not buying that some songs on the same album are available while some aren’t? What is it about those songs that cause it not to be available in certain regions?

It is entirely possible that some of the songs have copyrights that are owned by different entities. Those entities may, for a variety of reasons, not allow streaming.

hammycfc wrote:

i Got a fix for this but you need to re sync you’re iTunes to iPad or iPhone.

if you load iTunes and it says can’t be saved shut it down and open till it loads normally

hope this help

I don't actually have a problem. Perhaps you meant to reply to someone else?

I bought the songs from Amazon, they worked fine then stopped one day. I resynced with iTunes and it worked fine again. I never left my area so that its really a area thing is BS. Apple has a problem I have yet to hear a word from they as to why its happening. BTW it hasn't happened again to me.

paulsp1 wrote:

I bought the songs from Amazon, they worked fine then stopped one day.

If you're having a problem with content you purchased from Amazon, you should start by contacting Amazon.

Apple has a problem I have yet to hear a word from they as to why its happening.

Have you contacted Apple?

Not an Amazon problem, they played fine on the (windows) computer they just suddenly stopped playing on the iPhone. Have not contacted Apple, I'm not the only one reporting the problem and when I originally tried to contact Apple their site referred me to this site, so no help from them. As said once I resync'd with iTunes on the computer they started working again. Totally an Apple issue.

I still have support on my brand new iPad Pro so I went ahead and called Apple. It’s not an Apple issue, it’s the recording studios that tend to give “a taste” of music which in turn encourages people to buy the albums that have limited songs on them in Apple Music or other streaming services. Had I known this I wouldn’t have paid for a streaming service. Seems like this is happening more and more and pretty soon we may see very limited albums on Apple Music and other streaming services so that people actually buy the albums they want. I hope this doesn’t happen because I’m still getting a deal paying 15 bucks a month for family sharing and having 5 people on my account listening to what they want. I’m just going to start deleting albums that are incomplete. It’s like Netflix offering seasons of a tv show but not including all the seasons, and very often are the last several seasons so you miss the first half of the series. It’s actually pretty dumb to offer us a series when we want to see it from the beginning. And it’s dumb to offer us a couple songs from our favorite artists trying to get more money from us by buying the album. But I suppose it’s not all too bad. I just don’t see paying full price for a digital copy of music at a lower bitrate then the actual CD with that quality sound and you get the packaging for the same price. I feel the same about digital movies. Shouldn’t have to pay full price for new movies because we aren’t getting the packaging or the Blu-ray/4K/dvd included at the same price.

I find Apple's story hard to believe. Some of the folks that have reported the problem "did" have the CD and loaded the songs from that source. The recording industry and artists realize that the future is digital and have figured out a way to profit from it. Let's face it we're more likely to buy a song we like for $1 or whatever than we are to buy a whole CD for $10 if we don't care about the other songs so they get a sale, lots of little ones, when they wouldn't otherwise. Also in my case it was a song bought from Amazon that continued to work on my Windows computer (in iTunes) but all of a sudden stopped working on my Apple phone so somehow Apple shut it down, not Amazon, Windows or the recording industry. It came back when I resync'd and continues to work so in my humble opinion its 100% an Apple issue.

Nothing. I've yet to read any remotely justifiable reason for Apple's actions or any response from Apple at all except for someone that was told an obvious untruth by their support team. Your case is the strongest yet for proving Apple messed up but won't admit it. There are laws that prevent a company from preventing you from being able to use your purchases. I'm sure this would qualify but doubt this is big enough to take to court, its expensive. And my remedy was simply to re-sync to iTunes. Why Apple did this is beyond me.

I bought an iPhone8 upgrading from a 6S. Most of my songs were brought over to the new phone, except for 10+ or so that are greyed out and I get that message when I select them. But these songs are from MY CDs that I uploaded to my laptop to iTunes!!! So why did they not make it to my new phone?